Joban Papers

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In this volume, David J.A. Clines-known for his magisterial three-volume commentary on Job in the Word Biblical Commentary series (1989-2011)-brings together a sequence of 27 of his papers on his favourite biblical book from a variety of publications.

In two sections, the wide-ranging Syntheses and the more focused Probes on particular chapters, this collection is a necessary adjunct to his commentary.

Among the titles in the Syntheses are:

• On the Poetic Achievement of the Book of Job

• Why Is There a Book of Job, and What Does It Do to You If You Read It?

• Job's Fifth Friend: An Ethical Critique of the Book of Job

• Deconstructing the Book of Job

Among the Probes the reader will find:

• False Naivety in the Prologue to Job

• In Search of the Indian Job

• Quarter Days Gone: Job 24 and the Absence of God

• Those Golden Days: Job and the Perils of Nostalgia

• Putting Elihu in his Place: A Proposal for the Relocation of Job 32-37

• One or Two Things You May Not Know about the Universe

• The Worth of Animals in the Book of Job

• Job's Crafty Conclusion, and Seven Interesting Things about the Epilogue to Job